Can-caster.



s; B. BROWN.

CAN (EASTER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1913- 1,130,684. K Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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S. B. BROWN.

CAN GASTEB. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1913.

1,130,684, V Patented Mall-2,1915.

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SILAS :8. BROWN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE ROCKAWAY MANUFAC I? TUBING COMPANY, A PARTNERSHIP CONSISTING OF E; -VT. EDWARDS AND S.- B;

BROWN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAs B. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Can-Casters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new truck mechanism.

The object of the invention is to provide a body to be wheeled, with means controlled by the manipulation of said body, enabling it to become converted into a truck or a non-wheel supported device as desired.

A very useful embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawings, wherein the body to be trucked may be assumed to be a refuse vessel, such as the conventional ash or garbage sheet metal can or barrel.

The features" of the invention are more fully set forth in connection with the description of they accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification andrepresenting said specific embodiment of the inventive principle.

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the" base of such a vessel with the trucking mechanism applied. Fig. 2 is a side eleva-' tion partly in section of one of the trucking brackets and rollers, secured'to the annular base flange of a vessel. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the other side of the bracket. Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view of an article to be wheeled in the initial tilting position for converting it into a truck, with the roller resting on the floor, the holder being free to swing on its pivot under gravity influence. Fig. 5 shows the relative positions of body, roller holder and roller at a further stage of tilting, the roller being lifted from the floor. Fig. 6-shows a third stage of tilting, the raised end of the body having been lowered so that the roller touches the floor. Fig. 7 shows the further lowering of the raised end of the body,"

showing position roller assumes in final approach to trucking position. Fig. 8 shows the completed trucking position, the entire body now being supported on the roller.

Fig. 9 shows the first stage of'the restoring movement, with the other end of the body reversely tilted to clear the roller from the floor. Fig. 10 shows a further stage of the restoring movement, with the tilted end of the body lowered until the roller touches the CAN-CASTER;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ma. 2,1915.-

Application filed November 1c, 1913; Serial No. 800,017. Y

:fioor, the holder being inclined toward its normal (non-functional) position shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 11 shows the completion of the restoring movement, with the body resting entirely on the floor, and the roller in non-trucking position.

The body 1, selected for clear disclosure of a preferred embodiment of the invention, is circumferential in cross section, the bottom 2 of the vessel being positioned above the bottom edge of the wall 3, so that the body 'Inovably rests on its bottom'wall" edge 4:, constituting a non-wheel supported structure. The interior space defined by the bottom of the body and downwardly projecting wall, is available as a housing 'for' the truck mechanlsm. The trucking mecha-' nism for connection to the base of a body to be wheeled comprises a bracket 5, and in this instance, as the body is circumferential in cross "section, the engaging edge of the bracket corresponds in configuration to a segment of the body wall circumference;

Thelower; portion of the bracket has an outwardly extending channel flange 6, with an upwardly projecting clamping post7,

the base rim of the body wall being positioned between said post and the bracket proper, through which the bolt 8 projects for securing the bracket to the body, the

roller supporting portion of the bracket be ingthus disposed interiorly relative to the base housing portion of the body. The upper-portion of the interior portion of the bracket has a laterally projecting pivot lug" or sleeve 9, in which is piy'lotally supported a roller holder or hangerlO comprising the limb members 10, 10 the pivot bolt 10 extending through said sleeve 9, and the upper ends ofsaid limbs. A roller 11 has a bearing in the lower end of said swinging, depending strap between said limbs, so that as the hanger swings in its arc, as by raising or lowering the bracket, the roller may be relativelymoved from a position above the channel flange 6, (a non-wheel supporting position on the body), to a position below" said channel flange constituting. a truck conversion of the body, or restoredto normal, non-wheel'supporting position within the body housing. I preferably form the bracket witha depending stop lug 12, to enage the hanger member 10 to limit its 7 swing and its movement to one side of a vertical line when the tilted end of the body W 55 point of the body.

is appropriately lowered, said lug having a 'lateralextension 12 to vbrace said hanger against. torsional strainsVin-one direction, as 7 shown in Fig. '3. Tnlike manner I provide on the other side of the bracket a stop lug- 13, for limb member 10 having a lateral" extension 13 ,1115 brace the stop a ainst-lat eral strains in the otherdirection, see-Fig 2.

These bracket stop lugs limit the arc of 10 movement of the hanger as it swingsto i against the stop lugs,to one side of the vertical line, in which position thebody is manually balanced on and supported by said rollers for wheeling. V I v V I The principle of the invention involved,.of

. -course, residesin the use of either a single or a plurality of. such truck devices, and for the purposes of disclosure it may be as- I sume'd that a selected bodyis provided with a single bracket and roller disposedin a j line coincident with the selected balance The roller must have a permissive p'osition above or below the ground line 'of the body 'asthe body is appropriately manipu- -late d and the load shifted. In normal po- 40 sition, Fig. 11, the roller is above or C0111: cident with the ground line, the bracket hanger being free to move upwardly sothat the'roller supports no part of the load, and is preferably concealed within an interior, body base housing, in w-hich positionthe body rests wholly on the floor or ground. The hanger is free to swing downwardly and from right to left when the body is tilted upwardly on its left end as the ground pivot, the radius and are of this body movement being indicated by dotted lines,. Fig. 4., As the right side of the body is slightly raised the hanger swings on itspivot, the

, roller resting on the floor, until this end of the body is raised sutliciently to permit the hanger to fall into vertical linewith the roller clearing the floor, as shown in-Fig. 5. The right side of the body is then slightly lowered, the body still tilting or 6 pivoting on its left side groundline, until the roller touches the, ground with the hanger in vertical position, (see Fig. 6); as the raised side of the body is still furg ther lowered, the hanger moves to the left 7 of the vertical line under the influence of and the roller is raised from the floor, the hanger swinging from left to right. into Y v it follows that the roller can be movedto 'is susceptible of a variety of embodiments roller hanger or holder be so positioned relathe body weight now imposed. on the oller," and the direction ofthe tilting movement of the body-, (see:Fig. 7), until the hangerjjis arrested by the stop lugs-,wh'engthefurther lowering of the right side of the body shifts thebalance,;and raises the'pivotal endof' the bed rma thefioor, the body beingnow supportedby thev roller while the operator '7 holds theright'side of the body raised, the V load being balanced on the roller and thebodyconverted intoa truck (see Fig. 8).

Torestorethebodyto a non-truck devicefihe I left side of the body is raised sothat the r. body tilts or floor-pivots onthe right side,

vertical; position shown in Fig. 9, then as the left end. of the body is lowered, the hanger under the influence of gravity and the direction ofbody pivotal movement,is

the roller (see Fig. 10), until the left side of the body islowered to the floor line, the

hanger moving a the right in its are path to the non-functional position, Fig. 11, .the so weight of the body resting entirely on the 1. floor or ground; Preferablyithe fiXedpiv otal point of the roller hanger on ,thebody, is slightly'to one side of the center of gravity, or balancepoint of the load, to give 9 a wheelbarrow effect, V

The hanger will always move from ver -f tical line toward the ground fulcrum point r of the body, as the other end is lowered, and,

trucking position or to non-trucking p'osition as the body is appropriately tilted and the weight; shifted. I

It is obvious that this inventive'princ'iple for the purpose disclosed, and the claims are not'to be limited to the'preferred: form,

except where it is, specifically defined.

It is of course necessary that the pivoted w tiveto' the body base, as to enable the body to be ground-tiltedon the base, upon eitherside of thepivot point of said hanger, and fur ther that there-be some means determining the trucking position of the hanger which; will automatically function asthe bodyis tilted on one side of the hanger pivot point, and means. enabling the hanger to; swing above the ground line of the base, asthe body is reversely ground-tilted to render the roller'inoperative as a body support.

Having described my invention I claim 1. In a device of the nature disclosed, a body to be trucked and untrueked, a-roller holding member vpivotally suspended from a portion of the body base, shiftableunder; the influence of gravity, enabling the body to be ground-tilted on either side of said I member, whereby said member may be moved to either s de of a vertical line, and

e5 '3 :moved to the right by the floorcontact of means limiting its movement to one side of 2. In a device of the nature disclosed, a body, a roller holding member pivotally suspended from a portion of the body base, shiftable under the influence of gravity, enabling the body to be ground-tilted on either side of said member, and means limiting the movement of said member in one direction.

3. A trucking device for a body comprising an attaching bracket, a roller holding member pivotally suspended therefrom and free to swing under the influence of gravity, means on the bracket limiting the movement of said member in one direction, and

means on the bracket bracing the member against torsional strains.

4. In a device of the nature disclosed, a body, a roller holding member pivotally suspended from a portion of the body base enabling said body to be ground-tilted on either side of said member, the roller being movable in the arc of a circle from a position above theground-line of the body base, where the roller is upon'one side of the vertical line of the pivot point of the holder,

to a position below the ground-line of the body base where the roller is on the other side of said vertical line, when the body is ground tilted on one end, and returnable to normal position when the body is reversely tilted, and means limiting the movement of said member to 'determineits trucking position.

5. In a device of the nature disclosed, a body having a base formed with a housing above the ground line, a roller holding member pivotally suspended from the base and movable into and out of said housing, and

-means operated by tilting the body on its base rendering said body selectively rollersupported or base-supported.

6. In a device of the nature disclosed, a

body having a base formed with a housing above the ground line, a roller holding member pivotally suspended from the base enabling the body to be ground-tilted on either side of said member, the roller being movable to and from said housing, and means operated by the body-tilting to render said body selectively roller-supported or non roller-supported.

7. In a device of the nature disclosed, a bracket having provision for attachment to the baseportion of a body, at a base portion thereof, enabling said body to be groundtilted on either side of said point of bracket attachment, a roller holding hanger pivoted to said bracket and free to swing under the influence of gravity, and means limiting the hanger movement in one direction, determining the position of roller support for the body.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

- SILAS B. BROWN. Witnesses:

OLIVER B. KAISER, LOUISE A. BECK.

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